Learning PhotoReading
Would you?  Could you?

Whether you believe you can or believe you can't, you are right. This challenge applies to your success with PhotoReading. If you think it’s something magical, something that only a mystic with special abilites can do then you will hinder your success with the PhotoReading system.

Let me tell you a secret about PhotoReading.

It’s not mystical, It’s not magic. The system as a whole uses skills you naturally use everyday. If you are reading this you have the most important skill for PhotoReading mastery. You already know how to read. It doesn’t matter how fast or slow you naturally read it’s your ability to understand this at  your current reading speed.

PhotoReading is the next step in reading. The skills that you should have been taught when you entered high school. What you learned in Elementary or Primary school is what you needed to know to master the first stage of reading. The PhotoReading system takes you to the next level.

When you learn PhotoReading in a live seminar, home study course or even the book you will notice that you are taught some additional reading skills. Skills that help set your focus. You could easily double your reading speed by applying these basic skills.

The PhotoReading step also uses some of your natural skills. If you drive a car you probably use this skill more than you realise to get you to your destination. Brain research also shows more and more that there is more perceptual powers in the networks of your non-conscious mind than your conscious mind access. To say we use only 1% of our conscious mind is an over estimate. If you ever consider the art of reading you might notice that it involves a lot of non-conscious processes.

Do you ever go back to re-read a sentence because, you didn’t understand it? Who told you you didn’t understand it? Your non-conscious processes of course.

Do you ever re-read something because you realised you missed a word or read it wrong? Again, who told you? You’re no longer reading to your primary school teacher or tutor. So it was a non-conscious part of your mind that is monitoring this. You have a non-conscious part of your mind watching over you as you read.

With the PhotoReading step you give your non-conscious mind a mental snap shot of the text you wish to read. Don’t worry about your mind being able to handle this non-consciously. It can. As you have proved to yourself if you’ve ever re-read words or sentences of a book.

The challenge is realising that the PhotoReading step is not done consciously and it requires trusting that part of you that you trust for so many other experiences.

One of the misunderstandings about the PhotoReading system is reading at 25,000 words a minute. It isn’t reading at 25,000 words a minute it’s PhotoReading at 25,000 to 100,000 words a minute.

Reading is done consciously and cannot comfortably exceed 1000 words a minute. Faster than that you have to start skimming. If you take the figure that the conscious mind can only handle 7 plus or minus 2 bits of information a second and allow that one word is one bit. The maximum reading speed is 560 words a minute.

The non-conscious mind takes in 2 milion bits of information a second. Therefore non-consciously 25,000 to 100,000 is a leisurely pace.

There are a couple of other stumbling blocks that affect the belief of the learner. One is the stories and videos of expert PhotoReaders. The ones who flip the pages of the book or sroll the computer screen and then answer questions about the text. First it must be understood that they have used the PhotoReading system for a while and have the confidence a learner doesn't. They had built the non-conscious to conscious mind connection and trust their ability. The beginner has trouble believing they are capable of it yet so hinder their outcome.

Here is a paradox. If you don’t believe you can do it then test the system you’re going to score as you believe. Just like if you don't believe you can drive or swim you will experience your expectation. The way to do what the expert photoreader does is use the system enough to own the system. This means shifting out of limiting reading and passive reading habits that you learned in elementary or primary school.

This brings us to the second stumbling block. The passive reading habit. The PhotoReading system is an active reading system. By active I mean you know what you want from what you are reading and be able to recognise when you’ve consciously grasped that. The techniques are rather easy and the activation step when applied quickly help the beginner to get through their reading material 3 to 5 times faster in a live seminar.

Here again we run into a problem of habit. It’s habit that keep us in the passive reading approach. By applying the photoreading system a beginner can get their reading done three to 5 times faster. However because they look at the photorreading experts they hold the belief they cannot do it well enough they put in no to minimum effort for impact. Their belief that it’s difficult keeps them stuck in the passive reading approach taking for 12 to 18 hours per book as always because they think the experts get through all their books in 3 to 20 minutes. They see 4 to 6 hours as a failure to apply the system and consider themselves as failures because it's taken longer than 1 minute.

What you see and the success stories are exciting experiences however even expert photoreaders spends a little more time with the books they really want to know. In fact the more books they have used the full system on the better their conscious - non-conscious mind connection that such demonstrations become possible.

I consider myself an expert photoreader and a book of about 350 pages that I really want to understand and expect to learn something important from would take me 30 to 120 minutes. It depends on my reading purpose. By the same token there are many books I only spend 5 to 15 minutes with to discover they have nothing of interest to me. These books I have put on my mental bookshelf. I can always come back to them if my circumstances change and it does become important.

If you can believe that you can read you have the necessary skills to become a proficient photoreader. You may never be demonstrating the photoreading tricks you might find on the web. I’ve been asked to create some videos of myself performing these tricks. Cool as they may be they aren’t what photoreading is about for me.

For me it’s the next level of reading that I wish I could have learned when I started high school. It’s the skill I wish I had when I was studying after school and working. It helps me get my reading done 3 to 15 times faster. As I mentioned it depends on what I want so not all books are equal. I enjoy life and I like to read what I need and want to read quickly. For that I use the PhotoReading Whole mind system. Instead of spending 18 waking hours in one book I can enjoy that book with the same level of comprehension in 30 minutes to 3 hours freeing up at least 15 hours for other things in my life.

Learning through books is so much easier with PhotoReading.  Blast through text information to keep up to date. Learn how to PhotoRead at the next seminar. Check for dates here. If you have any questions e-mail me.